Nature Unleashed Volcanic Eruptions

Author : Louise Spilsbury,Richard Spilsbury
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1445152606

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Nature Unleashed: Volcanic Eruptions by Louise Spilsbury,Richard Spilsbury Pdf

Natural disasters devastate communities. They reshape the landscape and can alter people's ways of life in an area for years after the event. Learn all about the 10 worst volcanic Eruptions in this book from Vesuvius to Krakatau. This series explores the world's top ten worst recorded disasters, explaining how and why they happen and where in the world they have taken place. The series also invites the reader to examine what they have learnt about natural disasters and to apply that knowledge by answering critical thinking questions at the end of each book. Perfect for readers aged 9 and up.

Author : James Hamilton
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781861899552

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Volcano by James Hamilton Pdf

For years, tourists have trekked across cracked rock at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano to witness the awe-inspiring sight of creeping lava and its devastating effects on the landscape. In 2010, Eyjafjallajökull erupted in Iceland, stranding travelers as a cloud of ash covered western and northern Europe, causing the largest disruption of air travel since World War II. And just a few months later, Mount Merapi blew in Indonesia, killing over 350 people and displacing over 350,000 others, awakening people once more to the dangerous potential of these sleeping giants. Though today largely dormant, volcanoes continue to erupt across the world, reminding us of their sheer physical power. In Volcano, James Hamilton explores the cultural history generated by the violence and terrifying beauty of volcanoes. He describes the reverberations of early eruptions of Vesuvius and Etna in Greek and Roman myth. He also examines the depiction of volcanoes in art—from the earliest known wall painting of an erupting volcano in 6200 BCE to the distinctive colors of Andy Warhol and Michael Sandle’s exploding mountains. Surveying a number of twenty-first-century works, Hamilton shows that volcanoes continue to influence the artistic imagination. Combining established figures such as Joseph Wright and J. M. W. Turner with previously unseen perspectives, this richly illustrated book will appeal to anyone interested in science as well as the cultural impact of these spectacular natural features.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451413666

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Supervolcano: Eruption by Harry Turtledove Pdf

Yellowstone National Park sits on a hotspot: a plume of molten rock coming up from deep inside the earth capable of volcanic eruptions far greater than any that have occurred in times past. It has been silent for many years, providing false security for a nation unprepared for the full force and fury of nature unleashed. It begins with explosions that send lava and mud flowing far beyond Yellowstone towards populated areas. Clouds of ash drift across the country, nearly blanketing the land from coast to coast. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who survive find themselves facing the dawn of a new ice age as temperatures plummet worldwide. Colin Ferguson is a police lieutenant in a suburb of Los Angeles, where snow is falling for the first time in decades. He fears for his family who are spread across America, refugees caught in an apocalyptic catastrophe where humanity has no choice but to rise from the ashes and recreate the world…

Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781625133304

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Volcano! by Anita Ganeri Pdf

Containing several cases of volcanic eruptions, this book describes how and why volcanic eruptions occur and the destruction they inflict on communities and the environment.

Author : Louise Spilsbury,Richard Spilsbury
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781406255072

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Violent Volcanoes by Louise Spilsbury,Richard Spilsbury Pdf

How do volcanoes form? Who helps the victims of a volcanic eruption? What kind of damage can a volcano do? Read Violent Volcanoes to answer these questions and more. Each book in the Awesome Forces of Nature series looks at what causes natural disasters t

Author : John Harries
Publisher : Author House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781496995513

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Beyond Suffering by John Harries Pdf

If God is all powerful and all loving, why do innocent people suffer? This question is the principle reason why many claim they cannot believe in God. Suffering is intensely personal, exposing our vulnerability and making us fearful. It is the prime motivation for prayer and when those prayers go unanswered we feel betrayed. In this book, the author John Harries explores our dilemma through the experience of Job, whose struggle to find an explanation for his suffering has been specifically recorded to answer our deepest questions. The revelations Job receives from God form the most complete and profound teaching on suffering ever written. John Harries explores the close parallels between Job's story and the life of Jesus, further showing that Job anticipates Christ and foresees in him our salvation. He argues that through Job, believers encounter Christ in his passion and discover afresh the gospel of redemption. He offers a pastorally relevant explanation for righteous suffering, encouraging a deeper awareness of God's presence, a growing confidence in sharing our faith and a greater understanding of how to respond biblically to those who question why a loving God should allow suffering.

Author : Trent Milburn
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Volcanic activity prediction
ISBN : 1634633083

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Volcanic Eruptions by Trent Milburn Pdf

Natural catastrophic events such as volcano eruptions have greatly affected environments in wide regions around the world. Ash and gases impelled by these eruptions into the atmosphere carry large volumes of particles of different sizes (nanometer and ultrafine) that are scattered around the earth. However, the greater accumulation of different grain size was observed in the range of 10 kilometres from the centre of the volcano, causing devastating effect. The most important consequences of this type of event are loss of habitats for flora and fauna. This book discusses the triggers of volcanic eruptions, as well as environmental effects and the role they play in climate change.

Author : Robert W. Decker,Barbara B. Decker
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-09-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521312906

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Mountains of Fire by Robert W. Decker,Barbara B. Decker Pdf

Author : Raymond Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429965814

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Sociology And Nature by Raymond Murphy Pdf

Sociology as if nature did not matter has been the sociological expression of modern societies negligent of the processes of nature. In response to this ?ecological blindness,? Raymond Murphy examines the limitations of sociology that have resulted from this neglect.Humanity's success in manipulating nature destabilizes the natural support system of society on a planetary scale and, in turn, destabilizes all of society's institutions. Because the manipulation of nature has become so central to modern society, society, Murphy argues, can now be understood only in terms of the interaction between social action and the processes of nature. The growing awareness that social constructions unleash dynamic processes of nature?processes beyond human control that bear on social action?has the potential of radically transforming sociology. Sociology and Nature proposes the reconstruction of sociology in which nature does matters, developing a novel sociological approach that situates social action in its natural context.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1101551372

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Eruption by Harry Turtledove Pdf

Yellowstone National Park sits on a hotspot: a plume of molten rock coming up from deep inside the earth capable of volcanic eruptions far greater than any that have occurred in times past. It has been silent for many years, providing false security for a nation unprepared for the full force and fury of nature unleashed. It begins with explosions that send lava and mud flowing far beyond Yellowstone towards populated areas. Clouds of ash drift across the country, nearly blanketing the land from coast to coast. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who survive find themselves facing the dawn of a new ice age as temperatures plummet worldwide. Colin Ferguson is a police lieutenant in a suburb of Los Angeles, where snow is falling for the first time in decades. He fears for his family who are spread across America, refugees caught in an apocalyptic catastrophe where humanity has no choice but to rise from the ashes and recreate the world ...

Author : Robert Schreiber Jr.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426967047

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Fox: Buffalo Swamp to Marcellus Shale by Robert Schreiber Jr. Pdf

From woolly mammoths, through wolves and mountain lions, to the largest elk herd in the East. It begins in the heat of the tropics and continues through Ice Age Pennsylvania, from "King Coal" to Marcellus Shale. It is a story of Native Americans, pioneers and immigrants struggling for survival. Warriors, patriots, murderers and terrorists are all part of the history of a small town in Northcentral Pennsylvania. It is a unique story of men and women carving a home out of the wilderness, yet intricately involved with their nation and the world. Antietam, Normandy, Saigon and Baghdad are part of the story as is plague and the Ku Klux Klan.

Author : Steve Olson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393242805

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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson Pdf

A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester). For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington State. Still, no one was prepared when a cataclysmic eruption blew the top off of the mountain, laying waste to hundreds of square miles of land and killing fifty-seven people. Steve Olson interweaves vivid personal stories with the history, science, and economic forces that influenced the fates and futures of those around the volcano. Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative of an event that changed the course of volcanic science, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.

Author : Leon Niemoczynski,Nam T. Nguyen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739199671

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A Philosophy of Sacred Nature by Leon Niemoczynski,Nam T. Nguyen Pdf

A Philosophy of Sacred Nature introduces Robert Corrington’s philosophical thought, “ecstatic naturalism,” which seeks to recognize nature’s self-transforming potential. Ecstatic naturalism is a philosophical-theological perspective, deeply seated in a semiotic cosmology and psychosemiosis, and it radically and profoundly probes into the mystery of nature’s perennial self-fissuring of nature natured and nature naturing. Edited by Leon Niemoczynski and Nam T. Nguyen, this collection aims to allow readers to see what can be done with ecstatic naturalism, and what directions, interpretations, and creative uses that doing can take. A thorough exploration of the prospects of ecstatic naturalism, this book will appeal to scholars of Continental philosophy, religious naturalism, and American pragmatism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : UCAL:$C163728

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The Probelm [i.e. Problem] of Coping with Natural Disasters in Indonesia by Anonim Pdf

Discusses reasons behind the decline of the California condor as well as current conservation efforts to revive its population, such as the California Condor Recovery and the California Condor Captive-Breeding Programs.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation,Committee on Natural Disasters
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309044776

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The Eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz Volcano Colombia, South America, November 13, 1985 by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation,Committee on Natural Disasters Pdf

On November 13, 1985, catastrophic mudflows swept down the slopes of the erupting Nevado del Ruiz volcano, destroying structures in their paths. Various estimates of deaths ranged as high as 24,000 residents. Though the nature and extent of risk posed by the mudflows to local communities were well documented before the event and extensive efforts had been made to communicate this information to those at risk, the affected communities were caught largely unaware. This volume analyzes the disaster's many aspects: the extent, constitution, and behavior of the mudflows; the nature of damage to structures; the status of the area's disaster warning system; and the extent of the area's disaster preparedness, emergency response actions, and disaster relief effortsâ€"both at the time of the disaster and in the first few months following the event.